TldrLegal – Software Licenses Explained in Plain English

Re:TldrLegal – Software Licenses Explained in Plain English by bib971 on Sunday March 09, 2014 @12:50PM (#7368908)

This is even a shorter tl;dr: use MIT or Apache. Who would choose other licenses, more complicated, if they didn't mean to screw you later.

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Re:TldrLegal – Software Licenses Explained in Plain English by clarry on Sunday March 09, 2014 @01:01PM (#7368959)

You could shorten that tl;dr by removing mention of the Apache license. Which is much longer and more complicated than the MIT license, and incompatible with GPLv2 (at least according to the FSF).

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Re:TldrLegal – Software Licenses Explained in Plain English by XiZhao on Sunday March 09, 2014 @07:50PM (#7370531)

Yeah but Apache gives you an explicit grant to patent rights whereas MIT, although doesn't explicitly restrict it, doesn't grant it either.

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